Google, today announced a commitment to train one million young Africans in digital skills in the next year.
In
realising this commitment, Google is supporting its partner Livity
Africa to run two training programs: ‘Digify Bytes’ to give digital
skills to young people looking to develop a digital career; and ‘Digify
Pro’, a 3-month immersion program for digital specialists.
These
programs have already launched in Nigeria, Kenya & South Africa,
and will be scaled to reach more people in the next 12 months. A group
of 65 volunteer Googlers from around the world are helping the Livity
team with content development, ‘training the trainers’ and, in some
cases, delivering the training sessions.
Additionally, today sees the launch of digifyafrica.com
– an online-learning portal that will house a range of digital skills
courses, available to anyone in Africa – free. The courses are designed
to be as “light” as possible so they don’t eat up valuable data. There
are nine training courses already available and Google aims to have 50
available by July.
Speaking
on the announcement, Juliet Ehimuan-Chiazor, Country Manager, Google
Nigeria said “The internet is at the heart of economic growth and
the Digital Skills Program is aimed at helping more Africans play a
part in the digital economy. Everyone can succeed online, start a new
business, grow their existing one, or share their passion.”
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